Chapter 9 Changing Desktop Colors

This chapter describes how to change the color for various Desktop components, such as header, footer, font color in the header and footer, and so on. This chapter contains the following:

• Changing Desktop Colors

• Changing the Default Color Scheme for an Organization

Changing Desktop Colors

Most of these colors are part of the global theme attributes. See Sun Java System Portal Server 6 2005Q4 Tecchnical Reference Guide for more information.

To Change the Desktop Colors

Steps

1. Use the following table to determine what you want to change and what file you need to change. This two column table lists the Desktop component to customize in the first column, the files to edit in the second column, and the corresponding theme attribute in the third column.

   Desktop Component to Customize	File to Edit in PortalServer-DataDir/portals/portal-ID/desktop/default/	Theme Attribute
   Header background color	JSP-based containers: ./JSPSingleContainerProvider/header.jsp ./JSPTabContainer/header.jsp ./JSPTableContainerProvider/header.jsp ./PredefinedFrontPageFramePanelContainerProvider/header.jsp ./PredefinedFrontPageTabPanelContainerProvider/header.jsp ./PredefinedSamplesTabPanelContainerProvider/header.jsp Frame-based containers: ./FrameTabContainer/banner.jsp ./PredefinedSamplesFramePanelContainerProvider/header.jsp	brandBgColor
   Footer background color	JSP-based containers: ./JSPSingleContainerProvider/menubar.jsp ./JSPTabContainer/menubar.jsp ./JSPTableContainerProvider/menubar.jsp ./PredefinedFrontPageFramePanelContainerProvider/menubar.jsp ./PredefinedFrontPageTabPanelContainerProvider/menubar.jsp ./PredefinedSamplesTabPanelContainerProvider/menubar.jsp Frame-based containers: ./FrameTabContainer/menubar.jsp ./PredefinedSamplesFramePanelContainerProvider/menubar.jsp	brandBgColor
   Font color in the header and footer	The related JSPs are the header.jsp and menubar.jsp that listed in header background color and footer background color.	headerFontColor
   Selected tab color	JSP-based containers: ./JSPTabContainer/selectedTab.jsp Frame-based containers: ./FrameTabContainer/selectedTab.jsp	titleBarColor
   Content Page color	./JSPContentContainer/contentLayoutBar.jsp ./JSPEditContainer/contentLayoutBar.jsp ./JSPLayoutContainer/contentLayoutBar.jsp ./TabJSPEditContainer/contentLayoutBar.jsp	(none)
   Layout Page color	./JSPLayoutContainer/layoutedit.jsp	(none)
   Desktop body	./JSPTableContainerProvider/tabtable.jsp	tableBgColor

2. Edit the appropriate file.

   In almost all case, make modifications to the bgcolor=value statement to change the color. In the case of the font color in the header and footer, change the color inside of the FONT tag for the specific link.

3. In the directory where you make the change, run the following command:

   touch *.jsp

   (Or, if you know the parent JSP file, just run the touch command on that file.)

4. Reload the Desktop.

Changing the Default Color Scheme for an Organization

There are two ways in which to provide a new color scheme and layout for an organization:

• Define a new set of templates - You can define a new set of templates in PortalServer-DataDir/portals/portal-ID/desktop/new/ and make this directory (new) the Desktop Type attribute for that organization.

• Define a new theme - In the display profile, you can define your own theme in the GlobalThemes collection. See Chapter 10, Customizing the Global Themes for more information.